The Guangming Daily (May 5) published an article captioned "Make "dynamic clearing" a conscious action". It tried to distinguish between "zero COVID" and "dynamic clearing" and made the point that the "key lies in smooth logistics and transportation" to ensure peoples livelihood. It quoted Wu Zunyou, Chief Epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as saying that there is an essential difference between "dynamic clearing" and "zero infection". He said "Dynamic clearing" is to find and eliminate the new crown pneumonia epidemic that has occurred. The earlier the epidemic is discovered and the smaller the scale of the epidemic, the easier it is to achieve "dynamic clearing". As the most economical and effective prevention and control strategy to control the new crown pneumonia epidemic, "dynamic clearing" is in line with the current law of epidemic transmission. The Omicron variant is highly contagious, spreads fast, and spreads secretly, but as long as the bottom line of "dynamic clearing" is kept, the space for virus transmission can be compressed to the maximum extent and the defense line of public safety can be maintained. Obviously, the sooner the epidemic is detected, the easier it is to achieve "dynamic clearing" at the least cost. It called for transforming "dynamic clearing" into a "conscious action".

Separately the Procuratorial Daily (May 5) carried a lengthy article where it disclosed that the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) have jointly compiled and issued the Law on Punishing and Obstructing the Order of Epidemic Prevention and Control and published six typical cases of obstruction to epidemic prevention and control. Among the 6 cases, it said some still took public transportation such as bullet trains and online car-hailing vehicles to go home across the province after receiving the notification of a positive nucleic acid test, causing their wives and online car-hailing drivers to contract new coronary pneumonia. Another case was where someone violated closed-loop regulations at the international container terminal in Yantai.